pronunciamento

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The technical term for that sort of takeover is pronunciamento, Spanish for declaration.

From Slate • Jul. 18, 2016

West German President Gustav Heinemann officially initiated the games with the prescribed 14-word pronunciamento: "I declare open the Olympic Games celebrating the XX Olympiad of the modern era."

From Time Magazine Archive

In a pronunciamento to the whole country, Chang Tsao-Tsen declared that peaceful efforts at reunification had failed and practically admitted that he was powerless against the opposition of the war lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

However daring a writer's pronunciamento, it is taken in stride by the movers and shakers as part of democracy's continuing dialogue.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is quite evident from her last pronunciamento that she has no just appreciation of the importance and dignity of our demand for justice and equality.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady